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Let it Snow at Crafty Little Fairies Challenge

1:08 AM | Labels: Christmas, Lili of the Valley

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are well and having a good week. Sending hugs to those in need of them.

Today is the start of a new Crafty Little Fairies Challenge.

This week our theme is

Let it Snow

Our sponsors for this challenge is are
The Ribbon Girl, prize - £10 voucher
and
Stamposaurus , prize - 2 fab stamps

I used one of my older LOTV images but definitely one of my all time favourites. I just need the remember who I have already given it too!

Items Used:

Stamp - LOTV Snow Bears coloured with Promarkers

Papers - First Edition (not sure of the name they are a quite old!)

Marianne Design Craftables - Circle,Flower and leaf stitch die and border

Joy Crafts Winter Wishes Ice Crystals Border

Glamour Dust - Crystal

Sentiment - Craftwork cards

Pearls and ribbon from stash

If you take a look at the Crafty Little Fairies Challenge you will see the wonderful creations made by this week's design team and see who were the winners of the last challenge.

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:
The Ribbon Girls - Ho Ho Ho Christmas Challenge
Songbird Challenge - ♫ Merry Christmas Everybody ♪
Oldie But A Goodie Challenge- Winter ( old papers and stamp)
Crafty Sentiment Designs - Christmas
Party Time Tuesday - Winter Wonderland

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop and look at my blog today. I really so appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make

bye for now

hugs

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Include a Sentiment - Passion for Promakers Challenge

1:00 AM | Labels: Christmas, Lee Holland Digi stamps, Passion for Promarkers

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are well and having a good week. Sending hugs to those in need of them.

Today is the start of a new Passion for Promarkers Challenge.

This week we are launching our very special Mega Christmas Challenge which runs for a whole month and ends on January 7th 2014!

Our theme is a nice easy one

Include a Sentiment

Please remember to be eligible for our prizes you must use your promarkers, flex markers, tria markers, metallic or aqua markers.

So now for the exciting bit – look at all these prizes!

Letraset are generously offering one lucky a winner a pack of their Autumn/Winter promarkers Ltd Edition set!

DigiStamp Boutique are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a £10 voucher to spend in her store.

Bugaboo stamps are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of 10 digis of their choice.

Polkadoodles is offering one lucky winner a prize of a copy of their Bonbon Belles Double CD collection.

Clearly Besotted Stamps is offering one lucky winner 1 stamp set of their choice.

Dies to Die For are offering one lucky winner a £10 voucher to spend in their online store.

Bearly Mine Designs are offering one lucky winner a £10 voucher to spend in their online store.

WOW!!

So onto my card.

A few weeks ago I discovered Lee Holland's wonderful illustrations (available here) and I instantly feel in love with them.

I made this card for my wonderful hubby, which is good as this is one card that I have made that I really do like so I am glad I don't have to part with it - that doesn't happen very often I can tell you!!

I think this is one of the cutest images ever!

Items Used:

Digi Stamp - Lee Holland Penguin and Polar coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Sentiment - Whimsy Holiday Noteables 2

Penny Black Snow Scroll

Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush (used on ice berg)

Papers - Dovecraft (very old!)

Memory Box Bianca Snowflake

Memory Box Giovanna Snowflake

Memory Box Precious Hearts

Shaped Card - Craftwork Cards

Hobby House Rhinestone Sparklers

If you pop along to the Passion for Promarkers Challenge you will see the wonderful creations made by the design team. I hope lots of you will be able to join in with this one.

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:

Live and love crafts - Stardust

My Mum's Craft Shop - Christmas
Graph'It Markers - Colour Mixing / Anything Goes
Lisa B Designs - All the Glitters
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - For someone special - This is for my hubby!
Cutie Pie - Special Friend ( this is for my very best friend - my hubby, hope that counts!)
Stamping Sensations - Free and Easy
As You Like it - Favourite Digi and Why - This image is totally adorable, I love penguins and this image just makes my heart melt!

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop and look at my card today. I really do appreciate it so much and I love to read any comment you may wish to make.

Bye for now

hugs

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A Very Cute Penguin!

6:20 AM | Labels: Christmas, embossing, Pink Gem

Hello everyone

I hope you are well and having a good weekend.

Yesterday I showed you the Christmas card I made for my younger daughter. Here is the card I made for my older daughter using another adorable penguin from Pink Gem Designs.

I placed a sheet of glittered vellum onto of my patterned paper and then added an embossed frame.

For some reason my camera doesn't like pink, this is much prettier in real life!

I am pleased to say both of my beautiful girls were thrilled with their cards, the smile on their faces when they opened them was just magical! I honestly feel that I am a lucky mum to have such wonderful children!

Items Used:

Digi Stamp - Pink Gem Designs Cute Penguin coloured with Promarkers

Sentiment - LOTV Christmas sentiment tags

Paper - Forever Friends Kraft Notes

Papermania Holly Flourish Glitter Vellum

Embossing Folders - Crafter's Companion Snowflakes

Cuttlebug snowflake dots

Die-namics Tree Lines

Joy Crafts Winter Wishes Snowflake

Woodware snowflake punch

Hobbyhouse Rhinestone Sparklers

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:

In the Pink - Embossing ( not sure if I have enough pink - please feel free to delete if not!)

Winter Wonderland - Embossing

Little Miss Muffet - You've Been Framed!

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop and look at my blog today, I really do appreciate it and love to read any comment you may wish to make.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend

bye for now

hugs

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Anything Goes at A Gem of a Challenge

2:49 AM | Labels: Christmas, Pink Gem

Hello again everyone, as promised I am back with my second card of the day.

This time for A Gem of a Challenge

The challenge will run for the whole month and it's a nice easy one:

Anything Goes

The prize for the winner will be.....

2 Individual Digi images

(NO SETS, PERSONALISED WATERMARK'S OR SENTIMENT SETS)

of the winners choice from PINK GEM DESIGNS.....

As you know, I LOVE penguins so I was thrilled to see Pink Gem's newest images - they are totally adorable.

This card is for my younger daughter so it's very pretty and sparkly!

Items Used:

Digi Stamp - Pink Gem Designs Santa Stop Here coloured with Promarkers

Papers - Papermania Noel and Doodlebug Designs

Spellbinders Floral Ovals

Spellbinders Labels 18

Memory Box Precious Snowflakes

Sentiment - LOTV sentiment tags

The Hobby House Rhinestone Sparklers - Paradise Crystal

Crystal Glamour Dust
Silver gems from stash

If you take at look at the A Gem of a Challenge you will be able to see the wonderful creations made by the rest of the design team.

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:

Lisa B Designs - All the Glitters

Creative Inspirations - Contemporary Christmas colours

I ♥ Promarkers - for a Child

Digital Delights - You're a Gem

Creative Romance - Sparkle at Christmas

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop and look at my blog once again today, I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Bye for now

hugs

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Robins on Presents and a tag - Dies to Die for DT card

12:13 AM | Labels: Christmas, Dies to Die for, wildrose studio

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are well, sending hugs to those in need of them.

Thank you so much for your lovely comments recently, you really help to boost my confidence!

I have 2 posts today so I will get on with my first which is a Christmas card with a pull out tag made using some wonderful goodies from Dies to Die for.

The adorable stamp is by Wildrose Studio and the wonderful sentiment is from a set by Impression Obsession. I have used Die-namics Fishtail Flags Stax to make a banner for the sentiment.
Foam pads were used to attach the image to my card, leaving a gap so I could insert my tag.

The tag was made with a wonderful Tonic Studio die. I applied white ink to the card before removing it from the die to show up the present design.

Items Used:

Stamp - Wildrose Studio Robin on Presents coloured with Promarkers

Sentiment - Impression Obsession - A Star Led the Way

Papers - Echo Park Reflections Christmas
Bazzill Cardstock Pomegranate

Dies - Tonic Studio Indulgence Present Tag

Die-namics Pierced Rectangles Stax

Die-namics Fishtail Flags Stax

Ribbon - Green Polka Trim

Prima Say it with Crystals Yellow - I love these!!

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:
Penny Black and More - Traditional Christmas colours
Crafty Sentiments - Tag Along

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop and look at my blog today.

I will back a bit later with my Pink Gem DT card.

Bye for now,

hugs

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Snow Mail - GDT card for Stampart Designs by Kathryne

1:05 AM |

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are having a good week, not too long now until the weekend!

I was extremely honoured to asked by the lovely and talented Kathryne of Stampart Designs to be a Guest Designer using one of her newest images.

So here is the adorable Snow Mail, such a cute snowman and I love the sweet bird. This image also comes with a bonus set of sentiments from which I have used the 'special delivery' message.

This is one of those images that you can't help but smile when you are colouring it in! Thank you so much Kathryne for asking me to be your Guest Designer.